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Bert has an idea for keeping track of your books!! -- Have you seen this site? It is amazing. You can set up an account (free for up to 200 titles; $10
for a year; $25 for life) and easily catalog your personal library. Check out the main website www.rplotn.com
- there are many more pages and projects to view there! Come join us and let's get re-acquainted. You
can also sign up for daily/weekly or monthly emails from group members. You
can find out more about our group and new website at www.rplotn.com
and chat in www.fabric-stash.com. We
also have a Yahoo site set up for RPLOTN. It has an
online chat place and bulletin board is signing up through www.yahoo.com - and the group to sign up to is: RPLOTNOnlineQuiltGuild (ok
- the name is long - but it explains who we are!!) Click here to join the Yahoo chat list!! To join RPLOTN - the guild, please send your name,
chat name, email and snail mail address to Lost or Polly at:
and contact KAY/WA
for a snail mail addy to send your $5 dues.
HEARTS
As you make an entry it grabs info off the web from places like the Library of Congress, Amazon.com, etc. You just start by typing a
title or author or ISBN # into a search box. It comes up with possible matches and you just click on the correct one. It fills in
the rest of the standardized info including covers of most books! You can also add tags and comments.
It is so fast and easy! (You can even buy a barcode scanner for $15!) I have a master spreadsheet to keep track of the guild's
books, so I just had it sorted by author name and went down my list.
It can also do some importing but my spreadsheet and my interneting are two different computers so I didn't even try it. It was fast
fast fast just entering author names!
Of course, I will continue to keep my spreadsheet as my master file; I never trust an online resource to be my only copy of anything!
I did the 160 books in my guild's library (I am the librarian) and put the URL for our library in the latest newsletter. It will be
interesting to see the reaction (although we don't have a high percentage of computer/internet users in the membership).
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=ColvillePiecemakers is
the link to my guild's library if you want to play around with it. You can click on things like Author, Title, etc. to sort it. The
Shared column represents how many other folks with an account have that same book.
As more and more people start using it there will be even more interactive info like context sensitive recommendations, member
reviews, yadda yadda yadda...
Check it out!
Bert
Colville, WA
Webmaster